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<div id="main"><h1>The Capacitor</h1>
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<img alt="A capacitor" src="../resources/capacitor.jpg" /></p>
<p>The simplest capacitor consist of two metal plates with an insulating medium (also known as dialectric) between them.
Main purpose of the capacitor is to store electric charge.</p>
<p>Dialectric can be any insulating material, such as air, plastic or rubber. The better insulating properties dialectric possess,
the larger ammount of charge the capacitor can hold.</p>
<h2>Electronic symbol of capacitor</h2>
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<img alt="electric symbol of the capacitor" src="../resources/cap_sym.png" /></p>
<p>If area of the plates and dielaectric values are known, capacitance can be found using the folowing equation</p>
<p><img alt="equation" class="block" src="http://bricefernandes.com/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?C=%5Cepsilon%5Cfrac{A}{d}"></img></p>
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<h2>Capacitors in parallel</h2>
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<img alt="in parallel" src="../resources/cap_par.png" /></p>
<p>To calculate total capacitance the folowing equation can be used</p>
<p><img alt="equation" class="block" src="http://bricefernandes.com/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?C=C_1+C_2+...+C_n"></img></p>
<h2>Capacitors in series</h2>
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<img alt="in series" src="../resources/cap_ser.png" /></p>
<p>Total capacitance is given by</p>
<p><img alt="equation" class="block" src="http://bricefernandes.com/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac{1}{C}=%5Cfrac{1}{C_1}+%5Cfrac{1}{C_2}+...+%5Cfrac{1}{C_n"></img></p></div>

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